Every year, the AIA Conference on Architecture and Design brings together the AEC industry to network, share knowledge, gain exposure, and find multidisciplinary solutions to today’s most pressing issues. MG Partner John Doherty and Matthew Manis, Technical Director of AKRF, delivered their presentation titled “Bronx Tale: A Study in Environmentally Responsible Building Envelope Design.” They discussed innovative building envelope considerations, including...

Mitchell Giurgola had an incredible time at this year's J.P. Morgan Corporate Challenge. Our team completed the 3.5-mile race through Central Park, proudly supporting the Central Park Conservancy, with whom we are collaborating on the Harlem Meer Center project. MG and Susan T. Rodriguez | Architecture Design are transforming the 1966 Lasker Rink and Pool into a state-of-the-art recreation...

Mitchell Giurgola is honored to announce that the Brooklyn Public Library, Sunset Park Branch, was awarded a 2024 AIA NYS Excelsior Award. The Sunset Park Library Branch is one of the Brooklyn Public Library’s busiest locations, serving a community that includes many non-native English speakers, students, families, and seniors. With a space too small and outdated to adequately address the needs of its patrons, Brooklyn Public Library partnered with the Fifth...

MG is proud to announce the groundbreaking of PS121R on Shelley Avenue in Staten Island. Mitchell Giurgola designed the 3-story school for pre-k through grade 5 students. The school will contain four pre-k and three kindergarten classrooms, fifteen standard classrooms, and two special education classrooms. The new school will also include a reading resource room and a speech resource room. Nina Kubota, President and Chief Executive Officer of the NYCSCA had this to...

Mitchell Giurgola is proud to share that our latest project at the New York Botanical Gardens, the new Site Operations Center, will be one of the first net-positive facilities in the Bronx. Targeting the LEED Platinum certification, the structure will be constructed in mass-timber, clad with Ultra High Performance Concrete panels, featuring ten geothermal wells and a roof topped with photovoltaic panels. Around the site are electric vehicle charging stations,...

Mitchell Giurgola had a fantastic time participating in the J.P. Morgan Corporate Challenge – the world’s largest corporate running event. The MG team completed a 3.5-mile race through Central Park. The beneficiary of this year’s run was the Central Park Conservancy, with whom we are collaborating with on the Harlem Meer Center...

Mitchell Giurgola is proud to announce that the Houghton Hall renovation at SUNY Fredonia received a SARA NY Design Award of Honor. The renovation enlivens the building’s original dark interior by reconfiguring the corridors to allow natural light to penetrate new communal spaces. The LEED silver-rated design replaced failing brick and obsolete windows with a highly insulated brick veneer and curtain wall envelope, bringing forth a welcoming façade composed of...

On June 5, Mitchell Giurgola celebrated the groundbreaking of the Francine LeFrak Center for Well-Being at Barnard College. The facility will provide a centralized home to elevate Barnard's commitment to comprehensive physical and mental health, holistic wellness, and financial literacy support services. Construction is underway and the Center for Well-Being is slated to open its doors in 2024. As a state-of-the-art center, the new signature space on campus will...

Mitchell Giurgola is excited to share that our Center III project at CUNY LaGuardia Community College received an AIA NYS Excelsior Merit Award. The transformation of a 100-year-old building in Long Island City will support the activities of CUNY LaGuardia Community College for the next century. The Project involved two major scopes of work: the complete replacement of the exterior cladding of the building, inclusive of all aspects of the ground floor, sidewalks,...

Mitchell Giurgola is happy to announce that our façade replacement and lobby renovation project at LaGuardia Community College has been honored with an Award of Citation by the 2022 AIA New York State Design Awards. The goal of this project was to design a new exterior that respected the long history of terracotta use on the façade, while incorporating contemporary technology in the form of a unitized curtainwall system. The result is a high-performance...

Mitchell Giurgola is happy to share that University of Connecticut’s Gant Science Complex was recognized with an AIA Connecticut Design Award of Merit under the category “Commercial, Institutional, Educational, or Multi-Family Residential Design – Large.” Designed in partnership with Goody Clancy, the renovation transforms a dark 1970s building into a state-of-the-art science facility, containing new teaching labs, experimental research labs, departmental...

We are honored to announce that the University of Connecticut’s Gant Science Complex was recognized for an Award of Merit by the SARA National Design Awards. In collaboration with Goody Clancy, the robust state-of-the-art science facility was designed to reinvigorate teaching and research for a variety of disciplines at UConn including the Department of Physics and the Institute of Material...

Mitchell Giurgola invites you to join us on Monday, October 17 for a tour of Manhattan College's Higgins Engineering & Science Center! The Higgins Engineering & Science Center strengthens the identity of Manhattan College’s South Campus, elevates STEM education with state-of-the-art facilities, and creates a new distinct home for the engineering department, one of the largest departments at the college. The 30,000-square-foot Higgins Center addition,...

The Clive Davis Gallery recently opened at MG's 370 Jay Street project for NYU. Activating the streetscape near the entry of the building, the gallery hosts a permanent exhibition on the lower level that celebrates Clive Davis’ illustrious career and contributions to the music industry. In the upper gallery, a temporary exhibition space also reflects on work from NYU’s creative community and showcases contemporary art and design at the intersection of media,...

On Tuesday, February 15th, Carol Loewenson participated in the Open House New York Panel "Design Standards for the Modern Carnegie Library." The discussion centered on the Carnegie Library Design Standards and how they have guided recent branch library renovations. Carol spoke on how MG developed the design standards as well as the renovations for the Melrose Branch Library and the Hunts Point Branch Library. To view the recording of the presentation, click...

We are thrilled to announce the promotions of Heidi Sadler to Senior Associate and Garrett Omoto to Associate. Heidi is an instrumental leader at Mitchell Giurgola having managed several major complex renovation and new construction projects for public and private clients including Weill Cornell Medicine, Mount Sinai, and the Office of Court Administration. Garrett brings extensive experience and talent to the firm with over 10 years of experience working with...

We are excited to share that Manhattan College's Higgins Engineering & Science Center and the Brooklyn Academy of Music's BAM Strong received American Architecture Awards from the Chicago Athenaeum. We are honored to be recognized in this prestigious program dedicated to the recognition of excellence in architecture and urbanism in the United...

We are pleased to celebrate the groundbreaking at the new Harlem Meer Center. Mitchell Giurgola is working in collaboration with Susan T Rodriguez | Architecture • Design and the Central Park Conservancy on the transformation of the site at the northern end of Central Park into a contemporary recreation facility that is seamlessly integrated into the landscape. The project is expected to be completed for the 2024 summer...

Congratulations to Teresita Fernandez and Camber Studio on receiving an NYC Public Design Comission Excellence in Design Award for Paradise Parados! The artwork will be a permanent feature at the Robert W. Wilson Sculpture Terrace at BAM Strong, enriching the experience of the outdoor space designed by Mitchell Giurgola as part of the BAM Strong renovation. We look forward to seeing the project come to life and enhance BAM’s presence in the Downtown Brooklyn...

The MG-designed BAM Strong project for the Brooklyn Academy of Music was recognized with a Merit Award in the 2021 United States Institute for Theatre Technology's Architecture Awards. The internationally recognized awards program honors excellence in the design of theatre projects for creative image, contextual resonance, community contribution, explorations in new technologies, and functional operations. To learn more about BAM Strong click...

The MG designed renovation of 370 Jay Street was recognized with an Adaptive Reuse / Historic Preservation Excellence Award in the 2020 AIA BKLYN Design Awards. The project turned an abandoned mid-century office building in downtown Brooklyn into NYU’s new hub for media, technology, and the arts. 370 Jay street proves that it is possible to achieve LEED Platinum by transforming an existing building into a high-performing contemporary structure. Despite common...

We are pleased to announce that the Mitchell Giurgola designed renovation of NYU's 370 Jay Street has been recognized with a 2020 American Architecture Award by the Chicago Athenaeum. Now in its 26th year, the American Architecture Awards program is among the nation’s highest and most prestigious building awards that honor new and cutting-edge design in the United...

We are delighted to announce the promotion of Jillian Sheedy to the level of Partner. Jillian has been with Mitchell Giurgola for over 20 years and has been an instrumental leader on many of the most complex, challenging and successful projects in the firm's portfolio including the Joan and Joel Smilow Research Center at the NYU School of Medicine, the Collaborative Research Center at Rockefeller University and most recently the 370 Jay Street Renovation at New...

Architectural Record featured Mitchell Giurgola’s paper on K-12 schools after coronavirus. MG Partner Paul Broches was interviewed by Laura Raskin and elaborated on our ideas for how schools might reopen in the Fall. “What we tried to posit was a very simple program that suggested a partnership between the Department of Health, the DOE, and the design community. As an urban designer, I think of the schoolhouse as the primary anchor of the community.” Click...

We are excited to share that Mitchell Giurgola is a part of the 2020 Green Good Design 100 for recognition of NYU's 370 Jay Street. Established by the Chicago Athenaeum, the program focuses "on the most important new international products and buildings and construction and planning projects that are leading the global way to a design that is fully sustainable and compatible with the highest standards of good environment." We are pleased that our collaboration with...

We are proud to announce that MG Partner James Braddock has been elevated to the 2020 class of AIA Fellows, the AIA's highest membership honor awarded to those who have made exceptional contributions to the practice and to society. Throughout 35 years of practice, Jim has devoted much effort to the artful design of laboratories and other complex spaces. His work is recognized for synthesizing technical requirements with human needs and aspirations, and for creating...

We are pleased to share that the AIA New York State Chapter has honored MG Partner Carol Loewenson with the 2019 President's Award. The President's Award recognizes an AIANYS member who, through outstanding efforts of professional competence in nontraditional areas of architectural practice, has demonstrated lasting influence and raised the standards of professional performance and increased the recognition of professional competence by others. We are grateful...

On November 20, the National Academy hosted the opening reception of At the CORE: New Members of the National Academy of Design featuring work by MG Partner Paul Broches, FAIA, and thirty other recently elected National Academicians. The exhibit includes the MG-design renovation of the Humanities Building at Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus. Originally built as a shoe manufacturing factory, the building was transformed into the Fine and Performing Arts...

On November 1st, New York University's 370 Jay Street was recognized with a 2019 SARA National Design Award of Honor in Sustainable Design. 370 Jay Street sets the standard for high-performance adaptive reuse buildings as one of only four LEED Platinum Core and Shell projects in New York City. Its groundbreaking sustainability initiatives including facade renovation, exterior shading devices, daylight harvesting, and all new infrastructure have transformed the once...

On Thursday, October 17th, MG Partner Carol Loewenson spoke on the Transforming Brooklyn's Libraries Through Design Panel. As part of the Center for Architecture's 2019 Archtober events, the panel comprised of several architects who are working to improve the Brooklyn Public Library System. Ms. Loewensen presented MG's design for the new Sunset Park Library that is part of an affordable housing project that broke ground earlier this year. This shared-use model will...

On October 3rd, the MG-designed Engineering & Science Building at the University of Connecticut was recognized with a 2019 CT Green Building Council Institutional Award of Merit. The LEED Silver certified project has transformed the experience for UConn's Engineering students by providing a state-of-the-art home for some of the University's most rapidly growing research fields. The design incorporates a number of sustainability features including a...

Mitchell Giurgola was pleased to submit for the Big Ideas for Small Lots NYC design competition for small-scale, urban infill housing. Energized by the challenge of designing affordable housing on underutilized City-owned land, the MG team designed a net zero, hyper-efficient solution that emphasizes green social spaces, natural light, and sustainable materials. Hosted by the AIA New York and the NYC Department of Housing Preservation & Development, you can...

On Wednesday, June 12th, MG Partner James Braddock spoke on the panel "Case Studies for Life Sciences Development: How the Shifting Location and Nature of Work in Life Science Clusters is Changing" at the 2019 Life Sciences Real Estate Development Symposium. Mr. Braddock presented notable MG projects, including the Collaborative Research Center at Rockefeller University and NYU's 370 Jay Street, and discussed how these state-of-the-art renovations were designed to...

On Wednesday, April 17, MG Partner Carol Loewenson spoke in a panel discussion on 'Re-Envisioning 21st Century Public Libraries & Affordable Housing.' The panel focused on the new Sunset Park Library and affordable housing project that broke ground earlier this year. This shared-use model, as made possible by the Fifth Avenue Committee and Brooklyn Public Library, will be the first of its kind in New York City. Mitchell Giurgola is currently working on the new...

New York University's 370 Jay Street received a 2019 AIANY Design Award of Honor in the Sustainability Category. As one of four LEED v.2009 Platinum certified Core and Shell projects in New York City, the project proves that it is possible to bring an abandoned structure back to life as a high-performing, sustainable building that is also a vibrant urban hub for innovation. 370 Jay Street and all of the winning projects will be on display in the 2019 AIANY Design...

On October 20th at the Perez Art Museum in Miami, the Mitchell Giurgola-designed Adler Center and G-Wing Renovation at Ramapo College was recognized with a 2018 SARA National Design Award of Merit. The Adler Center for Nursing Excellence was designed as a highly transparent, light colored counterpoint to the dark brick of the G-Wing building, which houses state-of-the-art laboratories and classrooms for the sciences. With a prominent site at the main campus entry,...

On Monday, September 24th, MG Partners Carol Loewensen and Steve Dietz presented 370 Jay Street as a case study during NYU in Brooklyn: Designing an Academic Frontier at the Center for Architecture. The presentation included perspectives from Regina Meyer, President of the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, Seth Pinksy, former President of the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC), and Lynn Brown, Senior VP for University Relations and Public Affairs...

At this year’s A’18 Conference on Architecture, MG Partner Paul Broches served as a panelist alongside Jay Bargmann of Viñoly and Todd Schliemann of Ennead to discuss innovative urban design strategies used to integrate biomedical facilities into the dense urban fabric of New York City. The talk titled ‘A Tower, A Bridge, A Landmark: Three New York Laboratories,’ featured Mitchell Giurgola’s Collaborative Research Center at Rockefeller University as...

On June 11, Gov. Dannel Malloy, UConn President Susan Herbst, students, faculty, and industry partners are gathering at the University of Connecticut’s Storrs campus to celebrate the opening of the new, five-story Engineering & Science Building. The state-of-the-art facility designed by Mitchell Giurgola provides a home for some of the University’s most rapidly growing research fields, accommodating a wide range of wet and dry engineering and science...

The newly renovated NYU Physics Department was recognized with an ACEC Engineering Excellence Award at the Platinum Level! The project, designed by Mitchell Giurgola and engineered by Loring, met the incredible challenge to create an expandable mechanical plant for heavy science on the top of an existing building, all while...

On March 12th, Carol Loewenson, FAIA and Stephen Dietz, AIA presented our work on the Center III Building at LaGuardia Community College at the Façade Tectonics 2018 World Congress is Los Angeles. The presentation, “Terracotta 1912 to 2018: Center Three Case Study,” explored our use of a contemporary terracotta curtain-wall system to create a high performance sustainable façade for a 100-year-old, one million square-foot...

At last night’s AIA 53rd Annual Archi Awards ceremony, the Mitchell Giurgola-designed New Computer Science Building at Stony Brook University was recognized with a 2017 Excellence in Architecture Award in the category of Institutional / Educational! The project provides state-of-the-art graduate and undergraduate teaching and research laboratories for research in topics such as visualization and graphics; wireless and mobile computing; cybersecurity; and...

On May 16th, the Mitchell Giurgola-designed Stocking Hall Rehabilitation and Addition at Cornell University was recognized with a 2017 AIA New York State Excelsior Honor Award for Public Architecture. The annual awards program recognized thirteen publicly funded projects from New York State that “exemplify design and excellence in the public sector and provide a model of excellence for future state-funded building...

Romaldo Giurgola’s work is currently on display alongside the work of Louis Kahn and Robert Venturi as part of a new exhibit at the University of Pennsylvania called “What was the Philadelphia School?” The month-long exhibit runs from March 17 through April 17 and features more than 50 models and drawings. For more information, please see the Architect’s Newspaper’s coverage of the exhibition linked...

Mitchell Giurgola Partner Paul Broches, FAIA, is serving as a committee member for the nineteenth annual Berkeley Prize Essay Competition. Originally established in 1998, the Berkeley Prize competition was created to promote the investigation of architecture as a social art. Students enrolled in any accredited undergraduate architecture program are invited to submit an essay on a topic selected by the committee. The winning essays will be announced next...